Commander D, a well-known gay and BDSM-themed bar in Wanhua Ximending, Taipei City, was raided by the Wanhua Branch of the district. During the investigation, it was reported that the police officers were suspected of verbally humiliating people with disabilities, excessive law enforcement, and gender discrimination. The image of Taipei City as a gay-friendly city was severely damaged. Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan publicly apologized yesterday (5th) and asked for stronger police discipline. Shi Mingjin, a well-known football commentator who once served as a traffic police officer, bluntly said that the police system "is not a problem with education, but a lack of education at all." He pointed out that although the mayor was not entirely responsible for this crisis, as a command manager, Jiang Wanan "still has to shoulder half of the blame."
Shi Mingjin posted on Facebook that there was another important news in the past two days. He saw several old colleagues appearing on the news screen. He wanted to help Mayor Jiang to be fair. There is no problem with police education, because there is no education at all. This is not the mayor's responsibility. But he also has to bear half of the blame, because if something goes wrong, he has to be responsible and deal with it. That is the mayor's problem. After all, these uneducated police officers are now commanded and managed by you.
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Shi Mingjin pointed out that the fourth-class police special examination did not test criminal procedure law, so it is normal for police officers not to understand the legal process. The police do cover content related to criminal prosecution in courses on police regulations and criminal investigation, but there is a big gap between that and understanding criminal prosecution. Criminal Procedure Law can be taken as an elective in school. There are many highly educated people in Taiwan, and there are no exams for elective courses. "Well, you know."
Shi Mingjin continued that many police officers do not understand traffic rules, because their concept of traffic rules is the same as everyone else. They bought it with chicken legs when taking the driver's license test. Only those in the traffic team probably understand traffic rules. Because except for the third-class traffic team, the police special examination does not test traffic laws. In other words, 90% of the police have not really learned traffic laws. The colleagues in the traffic team learned by doing on the team and became the group who know better.
He further pointed out that police officers would be transferred here and there, and there would always be people transferred from the investigation team, from the police station, and from the First Security Corps. These novices, who didn’t even know how to use rollers and map rulers, were just dealing with car accidents. When they became familiar with them, some of them would still be transferred, so it was normal for the traffic team to have traffic police officers who couldn’t read traffic signs.
Shi Mingjin mentioned that when he was in the traffic team of the Da'an branch, his team leader was a part-time student at the police college. He graduated from the non-traffic department of the police college. He had never served as a traffic police officer in his life and had never dealt with any car accidents. However, he taught traffic accident handling practices in school just because his title was traffic team leader. Later, he went to another county or city because of a temporary promotion, and the school still had half a semester of courses to complete, so he was asked to substitute as he worked in the traffic team and was still studying for a master's degree at the Police University. "But wait, I am studying administrative law! But they thought it was good, so I went to teach for more than two months."
Shi Mingjin bluntly said that what we are talking about here is the lack of legal education. Another issue is the education of duty ability. Since you do not have systematic education in the legal system, how can the police learn work skills? To say that it sounds good depends on the inheritance of experience, but to say that it sounds bad is to teach it based on feelings. He actually admires the special abilities of some seniors. When he walks on the street and sees a motorcycle on the side of the road, he will say that it may be a stolen car, and he will be successful. But if he is asked to explain the reason, he can't explain it. It is a kind of talent and an accumulation of experience.
Shi Mingjin emphasized that the problem with this method is that you cannot reasonably use a logical system so that everyone has the same standards, and it will become a skill with a set impression. For example, when you see people with tattoos all over their bodies, you interrogate them, and out of ten, three are criminals, so you specifically look for people with tattoos to interrogate. You think that people with tattoos have a higher chance of being found guilty of crimes, but you still check a lot of people who have tattoos but have not committed crimes, and then you will miss those possible criminals without tattoos, because you are not using a scientific method. To put it bluntly, in the end, it depends on probability. Even if it is really effective, it cannot be truly passed on to another person.
Shi Mingjin believes that many people in society have the misconception that gays are good at taking drugs and having sex parties, just like heterosexuals do not take drugs and are definitely not promiscuous. These colleagues have not received enough legal education, gender education, and duty skills education, so they also believe that there must be something wrong with these gays. Then they treat these comrades as prisoners as a matter of course. In fact, in today's digital age, police officers are very careful about what they say, for fear that if they say something they shouldn't say, they will be reported and get in trouble.
Shi Mingjin lamented that the reason why these disgusting and discriminatory words were still spoken in front of so many people and recorded by so many mobile phones and monitors was precisely because they did not think there was anything wrong with these words. This is the sad part. This is a common problem in the police system. Based on his past experience, the quality problem of police officers in other counties and cities may be more serious. However, the complexity of the work and the customs and customs in other counties and cities are also different. There is a greater chance of such things being outsourced in urban areas. But at present, it seems that the city police department does not think this is a very serious matter, which is not surprising, because many of the officers making decisions are his senior officers, and they have not received enough education.
